Robert Solé...a master story teller. This is definitely one of his best books. Enjoyed so much reading it that I could not put it down. Solé superbly captures the spirit of middle eastern families with their happiness and sorrows as well as the political events and makes us part of it. A MUST read.

A long wait has finally come to an end. Having read all of Robert Sole's (Pronounced: Soley) books in French, I kept checking to see when the first English translation would be out. In "The Photographer's wife" Sole exposes with extreme accuracy the everyday life of Egypt through a well-developed plot. He describes his characters so vividly that they remind you of people you know. The read is very enjoyable and learning about levantine history at the end of the 19th century is painless. Sole is par excellence my favorite contemporary writer. I look forward to the translations of the rest of his books.

This is the sort of book which can speak to ten-year-olds of the things that matter most to them: blood, honor, fear, group cohesion. For all the carefully bowdlerized children's books they fed us at school, this is the one that was engraved on our minds, telling us how the higher life could be lived.

My friend has just written me about this book. I LOVED it as a 10 year old--and I loved it when I reread it a year or so after I was 40. And I plan now to buy it for my grand daughter. This is a fun and informative book. I wish more young kid books were like this.

Quite good in reviewing the basic pathophysiology of endocrine disorders.
This book is becoming the standard for fellows in endocrinology.

This textbook is very user friendly. I prefer this text over the William's textbook of Endocrinology. Very well organized with many good illustrations and tables. Has appendix of endocrine testing as well as common drugs used in endocrinology. Highly reccomended.

I read this book several years ago and was amazed at how clearly I was identified as one who "claimed" to be Catholic but who really had no idea what a Catholic believes. This book helped to explain our faith in terms that made sense. Much has happened in my life since I first came across this book, and I am now truly "Proud to Be Catholic"!

A must for all to read who are wondering about the church. It explains all in very easy terms. Fr Ken has a style and a way that makes a difficult subject east to understand. You owe it to your self to read this. Especially those who have wondered off toother churches.

Ride To Glory is a unique examination of the issues involved in the Darwinian hypothesis about the origins of mankind cast in the form of a novel. Action oriented, splendidly written, thoroughly entertaining (and more than a little educational), Ride To Glory is highly recommended reading for anyone on either side of the Creationism vs. Evolution issue.

Like a serpentine road, Road to Glory twists and turns to the last page. It's a book you can't put down--a book you won't want to put down until the end.

The author cleverly recasts the Scopes trial with Darwinian evolution in the dock. More than a novel, the work is a compendium of scientific challenges (all well referenced) to Darwin's Theory of Evolution. Creationists will cheer the star witness. Evolutionists, however, will take solace in the summary reflections of the main character which is the philosophical apex of the book.

A dry scientific tome, it is not. It is a lively romance, an intriguing mystery, and a revealing glimpse at the nuanced life of academic philanthropy. Ride to Glory is a wild ride by any standard.

A must have for anyone who is fascinated by Robert Cochrane and the Clan of Tubal Cain. There is much to learn from this complex writings , His devotion to the Old Ways is felt when you read his letters. Some of the letters give inside information about the way the Clan of Tubal Cain worked . A great job done on this by Evan John Jones and Michael Howard. FFFF

A must have for anyone who is fascinated by Robert Cochrane and the Clan of Tubal Cain. There is much to learn from his complex writings , His devotion to the Old Ways is felt when you read his letters. Some of the letters give inside information about the way the Clan worked that has not been made public before. There more new information about the letter "s and The Clan of Tubal Cain. The only thing missing are the drawings and symbol's.
A great job done on this by Evan John Jones and Michael Howard, FFFF .

Perfection may not be attainable, but as a beautiful book and a model study of a landmark work of architecture and landscape architecture this volume sets a high standard indeed. The photography is superb, the book design elegant, the production sumptuous. The subject in fact might be somewhat overwhelmed by the presentation, were the subject merely the "Big House" at Kykuit itself. The building was somewhat of a compromise design, remodeled once, involving two architects and an interior designer (all first class, of course). It is not the architecture of the main building, if tasteful, that alone warrants this lavish production, but rather it is the ensemble--the magnificent gardens featuring an important collection of sculpture, the interior enriched by a collection of art and sensitive decor, the varied ancillary structures, including Japanese structures, and the intimate view of Rockefeller family life at Kykuit. The text is unpretentious but well crafted. One suspects that every detail has been carefully researched and considered for relevance to the general reader. The tone is apt. A very talented and skilled team has produced a well-neigh perfect work of art about an important work of art.

As early as the 17th century, Dutch New Yorkers built family compounds in the Hudson River Valley north of Manhattan. Completed in 1913 for Standard Oil founder John D. Rockefeller, Kykuit (the names comes from the Dutch, "lookout")has been home to four generations of Rockefeller family members. Now owned by the National Trust for Historic Sites, Kykuit has only recently been open to the public.

The Beaux Arts estate, built by architects Delano and Aldrich, with formal gardens designed by landscape architect William Welles Bosworth, is a treasure-trove of rare antiques, fine furnishings, and invaluable artworks, most notably, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller's (the last family member to occupy the estate) unparalleled collection of 20th-century sculpture.

Written by Nelson Rockefeller's daughter, Ann Rockefeller Roberts, and photographed by Mary Louise Pierson, his granddaughter, "Kykuit" provides intimate details of family life that breathe live into what might have been just another coffee-table book about the fabulously wealthy.

"Kykuit" is a must-have for anyone interested in exceptional gardens, architecture and fine arts.

It is difficult to say who you admire more by the time you're through reading this book: the author or the engaging personalities he profiles so brilliantly. The title essay is a really engaging study of the former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and readers will get caught up in the movement of it almost despite themselves. McPhee so wonderfully elucidates every aspect of a problem that he can explain the most complex events and progressions with enviable ease. The essay "A Forager" is also a brilliant exercise in detail and narrative, and reads, like much of McPhee's work, easily, vibrantly. This book is really a classic of non-fiction, and McPhee is a master of the form.

Originally, I picked this book out to read more about Thomas Hoving, as I had recently completed his 'King of the Confessors' and, as an appreciative receptor of McPhee's writings on geological history ('Basin and Range', 'In Suspect Terrain', et cetera), I hoped to find the same sort of insight in his biographies. I was completely unfamiliar with the other subjects of the 'other Profiles' - they were merely an added bonus.

Nor was I to be disappointed. McPhee's portraits, whether of eccentric and unusual landscapes or of interestingly striated and deformed personalities, are fascinating. Aside from the humanised portrait of Hoving (who from his own writing appears to be something of an intellectual leviathan with the boundless energy of a cheetah after one too many coffees), there are the portraits of Euell Gibbons, a forager for the edible delicacies of the vacant yards and open spaces of wildernesses both urban and rural (who, amusingly, is described as 'the late' Euell Gibbons, which immediately led me to wonder, perhaps uncharitably, whether he had succumbed to one of his experimental foods); Robert Twynam, the Man Who Grew the Grass at Wimbledon (capitalisation my own) - an account which one might expect to be as interesting as, well, watching the grass grow, but really turns into a manner of deft psycho-horticulturo-sporting commentary; Temple Fielding, traveller and hotel connoisseur extraordinaire, who's favourite hotels became the basis for the ratings of an entire guidebook industry; and Carol Brewster, who's entry into the Sudanese civil service is a tale of intrigue and interest in a strife-torn corner of Africa.

These five biographical sketches, drawn with McPhee's effortless, almost conversational prose, are held together by one primary common thread: their subjects are intensely interesting men, pursuing occupations that, for various assorted reasons, are also intensely interesting. It is a book that grips and enthralls strangely, for it is not what one would expect to be a gripping, enthralling book. That, I believe, is its secret.

I can't imagine anyone not finding favourable comments for any of John McPhee's books - for once, popularity in a modern author is entirely justified. McPhee is a lucid, amusing, and thoroughly fascinating guide, no matter the subject which he has chosen about which to write. By all means, read 'A Roomful of Hovings', or, for that matter, any of his books, if your fellow-travellers on this beknighted little planet hold any interest at all for you. John McPhee is a fine a guide as one could ask.

This winter break I went on a Shakespeare buying spree, and this book is one of the fine gems I found. A large, but fascinating book, this work of great scholarship and excitement takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of Shakespeare, even into rather obscure corners of his works (Trollius and Cressida, Timon of Athens). This book is a must read for any would be deep thinker about Shakespeare.

Shakespeare as Political Thinker is a must for everyone interested in the political thought of William Shakespeare. This reprint will finally allow new comers to become familair with a commonsensical approach to Shakespeare's plays. The introductory chapter by John Alvis is worth the price. Perhaps the best Shakespearean critic alive, Alvis has an uncanny ability to show Shakespeare's moral seriousness without making the bard an unquestioning adherent to any political school or theological creed. Many of the essays that follow are also well done: Jaffa's chapter on Shakespeare's entire corpus, Laurence Berns' meditation on Lear etc.

The second printing of Shakespeare as Political Thinker gives hope to those interested in relearning ancient wisdom and pays tribute to its inspiration, Shakespeare's Politics (Allan Bloom).

I decided to use this book as a companion reader in a course in American history this year. This series of essays, which consist primarily of topics in social history, are an excellent complement to our very traditional textbook, which stresses political and diplomatic history. The authors of the essays are top names in the field, and the student response to the essays has been fantastic. I highly recommend this book as a teaching aide!

The Social Fabric presents a detailed array of readings insocial history for any United States History course. The readingsspecifically encourage two main revelations: U.S. History has many more interesting stories than the textbooks reveal and the historian's craft is much more complex than many students admit. The anthology is entirely engaging with details about daily life and customs. This book makes great general reading and should be required for all U.S. History courses.